Hello

What this blog is, and what to expect from it.

This is the first post on what I plan to make a real, sustained writing habit.

I make personal tools — for music, for plotter art, for the small AI assistants that live on the Mac mini in my closet. I have a tendency to spend more time building the tools than using them. This blog is partly a counterweight: a place where I have to produce something legible to someone other than me, on a regular cadence, with my name on it.

A few things I expect to write about, roughly in order of how much I currently have to say:

  • AI tooling as a creative practice. I have not written code without an AI pair in over a year. There is a lot of bad-faith discourse about what this means; almost none of it engages with what it actually feels like to do good work this way. I want to write about the parts that are good, the parts that have rotted, and the workflow shapes that survive contact with long-running, autonomous agents.

  • Synthesis and signal flow. I build firmware for Eurorack modules and design patches as a practice. There’s a peculiar kind of attention you develop from listening to ten variations of the same patch — I want to learn to write the way that listening teaches you to think.

  • Plotter art. I have an AxiDraw that runs on a Raspberry Pi in another room, fed from a print queue I maintain in a private repo. The interesting thing about plotter art is not the plotter — it is what it forces you to notice about the difference between a screen and a physical mark.

  • The shape of personal infrastructure. Skiff, Lemon Chan, vault-mcp, hatch3d, patchlab — the through-line on these is not the technology. It is the act of designing systems that treat me as the only user, and what that lets me get away with that a product team never could.

I have a backlog of drafts at varying stages of doneness and a workflow I’ve spent a few months refining for turning interview-style conversations into posts. The cadence I’m aiming for is biweekly. If you want to follow along, the RSS feed is the best way; I’m not on most platforms in any consistent way and don’t intend to be.

Thanks for being here.